5 Inspirational Posts That Will Change Your Approach to Teaching Writing!
We have collected five of our favorite posts to inspire and empower as you plan your writing instruction. We each worked to share ideas that were true game changers for us as we developed our own writing lessons. These posts share ideas that made a large impact on our students, but also changed our own ideas of what writing instruction could be. We are excited to share these with you below!
Ten Writing Assignments to Build a Writing Community in the Classroom
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Meredith from Bespoke ELA shares 10 amazing activities that will help you build a strong community within your classroom. Meredith shares that:
“One of the most important things we can do as English teachers is allow our students the time and the room to be creative, and in turn, this freedom of expression will inspire students to contribute in a meaningful way to the writing community within the classroom.”
A few of these creative activities are:
COMMUNITY POEM
THE "WHAT IF" GAME
RANSOM POETRY
RAMBLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Connecting Grammar and Writing in Meaningful Ways
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Lauralee from Language Arts Classroom shares really important tips for connecting grammar and writing meaningfully for students. From ‘explaining the why’ to conducting meaningful writing conferences, this post will help you transform your grammar instruction. Lauralee shares that:
“Students will hate grammar if “grammar” is something they always do wrong. When connecting grammar and writing, show that grammar is a tool to benefit writing.”
This is so true. Her tips will help show you how!
Ten Tips for Scaffolding Literary Analysis
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Melissa from Reading and Writing Haven shares 10 wonderful tips for tackling the ever challenging literary analysis essay. She will cover ways to break down this difficult concept, acronyms to help students connect their thoughts, and scaffolding ideas for struggling writers. These suggestions will help you and your students find success in a difficult writing skill.
Read the post for details about tips like these:
Modeling with examples
Sprinkling in multiple genres
Making it relevant
Creative Activities and Games for Citing and Embedding Text Evidence
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Liz from Teach BeTween the Lines shares games and unique activities for helping students not only cite textual evidence, but actually embed this text evidence seamlessly within their writing.
She shares ideas for creating:
Two unique choice board assessments for both citing and embedding quotations. (Freebie Alert!)
A citing and embedding text evidence board game to help students practice these skills while keeping students completely engaged!
A Creative Poetry Stations Activity
You will want this free poetry stations resource!
Amanda from AmandaWriteNow shares an amazing article about getting started with poetry stations. She will go through the steps outlined below, providing guidance, suggestions, and great tips for each! You can also grab a great free resource in this post to get you started!
Steps to creating a poetry stations activity:
Pick a poem for each station.
Create an engaging way for students to respond to each poem.
Model how you expect students to behave during the stations activity.
Model how to respond to a poem at one of the stations.
